The role of nurse trees in mitigating fire effects on tropical dry forest restoration: A case study

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Volumn 37, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 604-608

  Ricardo, J Santiago García ^a   Colón, Sandra Molina ^b   Sollins, Phillip ^c   Van Bloem, Skip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b Programa de Ciencias Ambientales Pontificia   (Puerto Rico)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVERGREEN FOREST; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RESPONSE; LEGUME; MORTALITY; NURSE PLANT; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST; WILDFIRE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA;

EID: 59049103021     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-37.7.604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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18. We would like to thank F. O. Perez Martinez, B. T. Wolfe, and J. G. Martinez Rodriguez for their help in the field; two anonymous reviewers and W. A. Gould for helpful comments on previous drafts of this paper. This research was funded by the USDA Forest Service McIntire Stennis grant PR00-MS-014 and International Institute of Tropical Forestry, cooperative agreement 05-CA-11120101-022 to SJV.